After writing the St Patrick Day Special I couldn’t help doing St Patrick nails myself. My friends from Ireland are some of most welcoming and unpretentious people I’ve met in my life. So in celebration of all things Irish, I decided to pay homage to the land of great people, U2, James Joyce, Guinness and four leaf shamrock.
For these nails I opted for a traditional 3 leaf shamrock design. As that’s what Saint Patrick used to explain doctrine of the Holy Trinity the the Irish. The main colours of course are green and gold which symbolize shamrock and well… gold.
Like this nail art idea? Scroll down ladies and lads to learn how to do St Patrick Day nails yourself!
HOW TO:
- Apply 2 layers of green polish on all fingers except ring finger. Paint ring finger in gold. Without waiting for your nails to dry, proceed to the next step.
- Draw shamrock on your middle finger using nail art pen in gold. To do that draw 3 heart like shapes for leaves and then from the middle of the shamrock draw the stem.
- Repeat step 2 but invert the colour combination. i.e. draw a green shamrock on your gold painted ring finger.
- Apply 3 coats of glitter on thumb, pointer and little fingers. Finish with 2 layers of fast dry top coat on all nails to smooth your nail art. Let it dry.
Done!
Note #1: if you don’t have nail art pen you can use a detailing nail art brush or even a toothpick to draw shamrocks.
Note #2: As an option you can draw gold shamrocks on all green nails instead of adding glitter top coat and cover the gold nails with gold glitter.
Used: Revlon Posh, Glam by Manicure 3 in 1 nail art pen in Gold, Orly Mermaids Tale (as featured here), Essie To Dry For.
Make sure you tweet or Instagram (tag it #sonailicious) us if you’ll do these St Patrick Day nails, we’d love to see your version!
– Maria, xx
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Mina says
Even i can try and do this one! haha :)
So nice and the polishes work really well together! Big Like! :))
Maria V says
Thank you Mina! I’ll be posting fun and easy tutorials every week now!
Even though there is a book available for those who wants to learn all nail art techniques and nail art secrets, I’ll be still showing more tutorials on the site for everyone to learn.
Debi Dale says
I LOVE these! I read your story yesterday and told my hubby about it over dinner, lol! I was hoping you would do a Mani for this. I wanted to do one and no I have my inspiration! I love the inverted design idea. You are so talented! I just love this blog! :)
Maria V says
Thank you Debi! I was wondering how the St Patrick story went and I’m really glad to hear you enjoyed it! And, its even more flattering to hear you liked this tutorial. More to come! x
Angela @ The Unprofessional Beauty Blog says
Oh wow. This is beautiful. It looks like a simple look but is absolutely gorgeous. It certainly also helps that you take amazing and clear photos.